[amayausers.com] Re: Cool effect.

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Wanted to share something that turned out really cool. I am making up some 
artwork for resale in local Christian supply shops.

I took a black and white image of Christ smiling, and did a photo fill in DS. 
Converted it to wireframe and edited out all the points on the edges of the 
picture so only His profile showed stitches. (Pull compensation set to x:100%, 
y:155% seems to work really well with photo fill).

Then I put down a series of satin columns as a background, to lay the image on. 
I added "sunburst" rays common to this sort of image, as if a sun was behind 
the head. Christ image done in black thread. Stitched it onto white velvet, and 
framed it. Image produced is really stunning. 

Now here is the cool part. Before I stitched it, I went to Walmart and bought a 
small spool of glow-in-the_dark thread (light yellow in light, soft green glow 
in dark) and used it for the satin columns background and rays. The effect in a 
darkened room is surreal! Very, very cool.

The small spool was meant for a standard sewing machine. I was able to use it 
by lifting the plastic thread guide tube a short way out of the metal cone 
tube. Popped the white plastic piece off the clear plastic tube, slipped the 
small spool over the clear tube, and replaced the white piece on the clear 
tube. Spool won't go over the metal tube so it sits up high on top of the metal 
tube. Ran entire spool without any problems. Made sure that the top part of 
spool was not the end they cut a "holding" slit into.

Just wanted to share. Anyone know where to find standard size cones of glow 
thread?

Dennis

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